Britain’s heaviest woman has died from a heart attack after her family smuggled takeaways and junk food into her hospital room, it has been revealed.
Junk food addict Sharon Mevsimler, 40, weighed 45 stone and needed an oxygen mask due to the strain her weight put on her heart and lungs.
But witnesses at Broomfield Hospital – where she had been a patient for two months – said relatives brought in fish and chips and family-sized buckets of fried chicken to the mother-of-four.
The mother-of-four, who was just five feet tall, had received 24-hour care since 2005. She had begun to comfort eat after suffering severe post-natal depression.
Doctors told her she had just months to live in 2007 because of her size – then about 266 kg.
Mevsimler said earlier this month: “I have been left to die. If I was anorexic I would get proper help but no one has sympathy for obese people.”
She was repeatedly warned she was eating herself to death.
But she refused to stop bingeing – despite undergoing a £30,000 op on the NHS earlier this year to have a gastric band fitted. It was meant to have curbed her huge appetite.
